Wagashi, in kanji it is 和菓子. The ‘Wa’ refers to the Japanese culture, like ‘wagami’ means Japanese paper. While the ‘gashi’ means the sweets, or the fruit. Wagashi means Japanese Sweets. Wagashi is also call as Okashiお菓子 following the direct kanji reading.The Japanese culture is full with nature art culture. Almost everything in daily life is related to the art of nature.

And the wagashi also related to the natural art of Japan. Japan is a country that has all the 4 season of the year, spring（春，はる）, summer（夏，なつ）, fall or autumn（秋，あき）, and winter（冬，ふゆ）. The Japanese wagashi maker makes the wagashi fallowing the season. Most of the wagashi names was given from the waga poem which means the Japanese poem.

Refers to the history, the Japanese culture of tea ceremony came from china. The culture of the tea ceremony was only popular among the upper class people, the noble and the rich family. There for many wagashi have very unique name given from the upper class people.

Many of the wagashi was the inspirited by the nature beauty such as the Sakuramochi 桜餅（さくらもち）from the flowers of the sakura tree. They try to make almost 100% of the sakura mochi from the sakura tree like using the sakura tree flower petal as decoration or the use the liquate from the petal of the sakura to be the ingredient .

Some of the wagashi is fill with anko (sweet filling), most commonly is the azuki (あずき，小豆，means the bean type paste) like red bean paste, white bean, peanut, yam, green tea, and plum.